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Subject:	Re: Windows XP gotchas
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"Joe Morris" <jcmorris AT mitre DOT org> wrote in message
news:a7v7na$34c$1 AT newslocal DOT mitre DOT org...
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
>
> >Terje Mathisen wrote:
> >>
> >> Buried within the Windows XP licence is a statement that makes it
> >> explicitely illegal to use any form of remote control sw not on a
> >> pre-approved list (only MS apps are on this list: Suprised?).
> >>
> >> If you still want to do it, you must first buy a separate XP
> >> licence for each system that might use VNC or similar sw to take
> >> control of the XP machine!
>
> >Forwarded from alt.folklore.computers without further comment.
>
> Adding comment <g>: I kicked this up to our MS salesrep; the reply
> was something along the lines of "Microsoft understands that there
> is an issue with this and is working on a reply, but has no response
> to offer at this time."
>
> If anyone wants to see the license text, it can be found in the file
> d:\I386\EULA.TXT on the XP disk: it's the last sentence in the first
> bullet item under the heading "GRANT OF LICENSE":
>
>                     Except as otherwise permitted by the
>       NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop
>       features described below, you may not use the Product
>       to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other
>       executable software residing on the Workstation Computer,
>       nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display,
>       or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless
>       the Device has a separate license for the Product.
>

It seems to try to rule out VNC and similar systems - not too good.

IIRC, the statement is not worth the paper it is on in the EU.

The European Copyright Directive even allows dis-assembly of code to make it
interwork with another separately developed piece of code. The limiting of
use by some other pieces of code in the EU is explicitely forbidden in the
directive. The Directive is forcing legislation: it supercedes any other
agreements.

Not that I'd touch XP even with the proverbial twenty-foot rod...

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi

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